Great addition just recently published by the great Tom Moore from the not less good Mineralogical Record in the excellent What’s New in the Mineral World? section which time to time referencing on line the novelties that appear in the different web pages as well as in the mineral Shows.

As you will see below the Tom's text is very instructive. It will be one of my guides during my stay in Tucson!

Adam Wright and Erika Aheimer arrived in Tucson today and unpacked the new Adelaide Mine crocoite shipment for the 2017 Tucson Show. The new item this year is wonderful crocoite with dundasite from the "under the red river" zone. It appears to be a one time find and was hit on October 12, 2016 in time to be collected, cleaned and mounted for shipment for this year's show. Some photos follow.

Also found this year were two excellent cerussite specimen - delicate and complete. An amazing collecting success to get these out. Photos follow.

And just before to start my annual pilgrimage to Tucson here you have three more posters of three other Tucson Shows: the Arizona Mineral & Fossils Show (including the Hotel Tucson City Center, the Ramada Ltd.- Downtown and the Mineral & Fossil Marketplace), the Westward Look and the 22nd Street Show.

I spent much of today at the HTCC - in setup mode right now but maybe a dozen rooms are open - and there's already some fakes running around.

- there are some "thompsonites on stilbites" which Hemant Merchant assures me are in reality oiled mesolites.
- he also said to beware of any deccan stalagtites - many have been found to be manufactured - glued or epoxied so professionally that even he was fooled.
- there are golden marcasite nodules from Madagascar that are indeed complete marcasite nodules, but the color is chemically induced.

I have a photo of the marcasite and plan to post the others - and maybe more - tomorrow.

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